Re: Tomcat 5/Apache 2/JK2- production quality?
Le mercredi 29 septembre 2004 12:43 -0400, Kurt Overberg a crit : Gang, I've been running a fairly large website (25000 pages/day) off of Tomcat4.1.30/JK/Apache1.3 for quite some time now. Its been running great, but in expectation of needing some load balancing, I'm thinking of moving to Tomcat5/Apache2/JK2. Anyone have any thoughts or experiences with running these versions in a production environment? Thanks! Henri Gomez stated yesterday on JPackage lists JK2 was not ready for production and there would be a new integrated connector module in apache 2.1 anyway. He got as far as to suggest we remove our JK2 package. Now since he's heavily involved with JK1 you might want to take his words with a grain of salt, but I personnally won't discount them (of course, the hellish config system of JK2 helps a lot to make one's mind). You'll notice even in the official JK2 doc pages there is no clear endorsement of JK2 over JK1, and in fact large parts of it deal only with JK1. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?=
Re: Beginner for Apache Tomcat: Need Help
Le mercredi 29 septembre 2004 16:55 +0100, TK a crit : 4. Are there any guides on setting and configuring Apache and Tomcat in Linux environment? Depending on the linux distro you target, there is probably already a community of java users with howtos and sometimes prepackaged binaries. For Redhat, Fedora, Suse/Novell and Mandrake the JPackage project (http://www.jpackage.org) is a good starting point. Debian and Gentoo also have their own packaging communities. http://java.debian.net/index.php/CommonJavaPackaging should list the projects that decided to come out of the woods and try to work together. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?=
Re: Beginner for Apache Tomcat: Need Help
Le mercredi 29 septembre 2004 14:28 -0400, Ben Souther a crit : For what it's worth. If you install Fedora Core II with All packages checked in the installer (I imagine it would work with all Development Tools too), it will install Apache and Tomcat 4.1x. The two will already be configured to work together. I haven't looked that closely at the configuration so I don't know what JDK it's using or any of the other particulars but it could be an easy shortcut to getting started. Unfortunately the FC2 setup is gcj-based and not real useful in production. FC3 (post-FC3 actually) should be closer to the current JPackage with gcj compat added. Cheers, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?=
Why run tomcat as root
Hi, I you are using Linux and a distribution that groks rpms, just install the packages provided by jpackage (http://jpackage.zarb.org/) or even those on jakarta (same maintainer, might be a little bit less up-to-date). You'll get an hassle-free tomcat-mod_jk-apache solution, with regular updates and almost no maintenance (no kidding, you won't find any of the convoluted windows installation stories with these packages). jpackage rpms have been using a dedicated tomcat user almost from the beginning (patches for the scripts are welcome if you find any deficiencies). Don't spend hours setting up a tomcat config - just use the same one and everyone else, and help polish it (no it's not 100% LSB compliant yet, but we're working on it). And anyway, compared to the weight of a java solution, apache is almost nothing - you won't even notice it in system profiles if it used solely as a mod-jk gateway. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Exporting the same webapp on two different hosts
[ Please cc me any replies as I'm not subscribed to the list ] Hi, I've been asked to export the same webapp on the same server on two different hosts (basically the client wants to access the same server both from its intranet and externally, but do not have nor want to setup a network zone with good internal and external network connectivity. So he just wants to add a second NIC to the server and give it a fit of schizophrenia). The current setup is Apache - mod_jk - tomcat 3.3.1 - IBM SDK 1.3.0 - RH 7.3. What I did is write a second app-foo.xml with a different Host pointing on the same webapp dir (on a test server). It « seems » to work. However I'd be really grateful if people could enlighten me on the following points : * is it supposed to work (i.e. was this setup taken into account when tomcat was written) ? * do anyone runs a similar setup in prod ? * will the memory usage be closer to one or two webapps (i.e. is tomcat/the jvm/the system be smart enough to share resources between the two hosts ) ? * will the result of jsp compiles be shared between the two hosts (it seems to be the case ) ? * is there a risk of a component becoming confused ? * what else should I look for ? As you see I'm a bit nervous since the sane answer would be to put the server in a correct networking zone, so I'm not sure this have been tried before. Any answer (partial or full) will be appreciated. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot One2team : 12 bis rue de la Pierre levée - 75011 Paris - France Tél : + 33 1 43 38 19 80 - Fax : +33 1 43 14 23 07 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
